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- Full time
- Permanent
Full Job Description
To provide care and support to both adults and children with autism and/or learning disabilities who exhibit a variety of behaviours that cause concern. To lead the team around the adult or child, Keywork the individual and provide supervision and other support measures to the team.,
- To provide direct support and Keywork service users who display behaviour that causes concern. Working as a team to manage the behaviour and to enable them to participate in a wide range of activities in the community to support social inclusion.
- To support and be a keyworker to adults within their own home in the local community, accessing community facilities and enabling them to maintain their tenancy.
- To support and be a keyworker to children living at home, supporting them to reach their potential, be part of their community and maintain family relationships.
- To support and be a keyworker to children and young people living in residential care supporting them to reach their potential, be part of their community and maintain family relationships.
- To provide support and supervision to support workers within the service.
- To uphold social work values and to ensure good working practice including understanding and awareness of health and safety.
- To promote the independence and develop the skills of service users and assist with all tasks necessary to ensure positive life experiences and maintain their tenancy.
- To work positively with other agencies, parents, support workers, and other services to ensure a quality provision of care for service users.
- To ensure that the living environment of the service users is clean and appropriate to meet each individual's needs.
- To participate in regular and ongoing training relevant to the needs of the service users.
Previous experience in completing Keyworker responsibilities - Previous experience in working in Social care
- Willingness to undertake HSC SVQ level 3 & PDA in supervision (adults) CYP SVQ level 4
- Willingness to undertake further training as required.
- Registration with the SSSC once in post
- Effective Practical Skills
- Effective Observational Skills
- Flexibility, Empathy and Approachability.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Experience of community participation
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Previous experience in a supervisory role.
- Experience of working in social care
- A resilient and assertive nature
- Ability to remain calm in a crisis
- Ability to reflect on own professional practice
- Knowledge of Social Care Values.
- To understand your own feelings about being challenged
- Knowledge of Social Care Values.
- Knowledge Health & Social care values
- Ability to form positive relationships with service users, colleagues, parents, guardians and other professionals.
- Sensitivity and understanding of discrimination and health and wellbeing issues.
- Flexible approach to work patterns and bases and ability to work within and shift based rota system.
- Ability to respond appropriately in difficult or challenging situations e.g. BSS etc
- Ability to work effectively as part of the support team and in multidisciplinary settings.
- Ability to use own initiative and to be self-motivated
- The ability to engage service users in activities and participation within their home and in the local community.
- Ability to communicate in an open an approachable manner.
- An appreciation, acceptance and commitment to the importance of confidentiality
- Ability to carry out duties that involve personal care of service users.
- Ability to carry out moving and handling duties in line with health and safety regulation and risk assessment.
- Ability to support service users with physical activities such as swimming, hydro therapy etc.
- Must be able to work flexibly to meet the needs and demands of the service
- The ability to deliver agreed interventions for managing behaviour that causes concern, e.g.
- BSS,SCIP, CALM etc. There is potential for this to become a full-time position with 13.5hrs worked as a Keyworker and 22.75hrs worked as a Support Worker providing direct support to our Service Users., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to .
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